sycophancy
self-seeking or servile flattery.
the character or conduct of a sycophant.
Origin of sycophancy
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How to use sycophancy in a sentence
Unfortunately, being intellectually dim and surrounded by sycophancy is a very bad combination.
Tina Brown Breaks Down the Biggest Royal Family Revelations From Her New Book | Charlie Campbell / London | April 25, 2022 | TimeIt wasn’t the first time McCarthy had resorted to unbelievable acts of sycophancy.
How New Revelations Complicate Kevin McCarthy’s Bid for House Speaker | Philip Elliott | April 22, 2022 | TImeAlone among the servants he had no time for sycophancy or subservience.
His caustic audacity salted his sycophancy and made him a man apart from the herd of flatterers.
The Stones of Paris in History and Letters, Volume I (of 2) | Benjamin Ellis MartinThink not, however, that this inequality favors pride on the one hand, and sycophancy on the other.
The Hearth-Stone | Samuel Osgood
The soft sycophancy of Mrs. Nuttall disgusted him; he knew well enough what evoked it.
Grif | B. L. (Benjamin Leopold) FarjeonThis is not the time for sycophancy, for servility, for compromise of principle, for forgetfulness of our rights.
Slavery | William E. ChanningIt was not until all hope of turning sycophancy to further account was gone that he took up with patriotism.
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